CVE-2016-4971 Affecting wget package, versions <1.18-1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
95.51% (100th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN13-WGET-5699535
- published 30 Jun 2016
- disclosed 30 Jun 2016
Introduced: 30 Jun 2016
CVE-2016-4971 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:13 wget to version 1.18-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wget package and not the wget package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4971
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-4971
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4971
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-11
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=e996e322ffd42aaa051602da182d03178d0f13e1
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-06/msg00004.html
- http://securityadvisories.paloaltonetworks.com/Home/Detail/86
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162395/GNU-wget-Arbitrary-File-Upload-Code-Execution.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00043.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343666
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2587.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91530
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036133
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4971
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3012-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2587
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4971
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40064
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